00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009743 20200508204933 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 978-90-04-39142-0 010-0520009743 eng 327 327/PAI/P Tamsin Phillipa Paige Petulant and Contrary: Approaches by the Permanent Five Members of the UN Security Council to the Concept of threat to the peace under Article 39 of the UN Charter Leiden Brill 2019 xiv, 330 pp. <a href="https://brill.com/view/title/54194">e-book</a> Aside from self-defence, a UN Security Council authorisation under Chapter VII is the only exception to the prohibition on the use of force. Authorisation of the use of force requires the Security Council to first determine whether that situation constitutes a ‘threat to the peace’ under Article 39. The Charter has long been interpreted as placing few bounds around how the Security Council arrives at such determinations. As such commentators have argued that the phrase threat to the peace is undefinable in nature and lacking in consistency. Through a critical discourse analysis of the justificatory discourse of the P5 surrounding individual decisions relating to ‘threat to the peace’ (found in the meeting transcripts), this book demonstrates that each P5 member has a consistent definition and understanding of what constitutes a threat to the peace. Human Rights Human Rights and Humanitarian Law International Relation